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by fasa99 2y ago
We are hardwired for sex and reproduction. It's a simple argument. Assume there's a genetic trait, "horny" (pardon the language). Some have it, some don't. Genes that cause horniness are selected for, those that
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by fasa99 2y ago
Exactly. I've had managers like this. It's a sort of uncontrolled OCD if I'm being honest, particular painful as well if you know it's a kind, deeply well intended person.. unable to control their OCD. People with OCD a
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by fasa99 2y ago
I agree. My understanding of layoffs is you're closing out the role, and thus, the person holding the role loses it. This is separate from the actual performance of said person. Conversely, for a poor performer, you're cutting o
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by fasa99 2y ago
Not wild at all. think of brain cancer (AKA GBM AKA glioblastoms multiforme). The more you think, the more blood to the brain, the faster the cancer grows. Think about it.
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by fasa99 2y ago
My Tomtom GPS is like this. I have an older model. "Lifetime maps". For many years, plug it in, new map, download done. Eventually I try to update it and it says "oh no, do you want to buy a map!?". I mean. What? Do
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by fasa99 2y ago
The bitterest irony about photos or similar is it's quite unlikely they really deleted (or will delete) the photos. I mean. What an amazing walled garden data set for image models. Literally the fuel for Meta or twitter's AI.
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by fasa99 2y ago
It's a real shame, such a phone would be a win-win as far as google's code containing all the NSA backdoors and such, and Huwai's hardware containing all the CSA's hardware backdoors and such. Imagine the cyberspace war
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by fasa99 2y ago
Forget about the nuclear plant, the interesting thing here is geopolitics. Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia back in the day straight up. The US equivalent would be "Hey Detroit, you're a mess, you're no longer part of th
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by fasa99 2y ago
This makes me strike upon an idea seeing as petroleum is leaking from the whale - might whales be used as a renewable oil resource in the same way as renewable lumber? Whale farms and such (not referring to online dating here, but literall
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by fasa99 2y ago
>Imagine your photorealistic inversion AI putting a mole or a wrinkle in the face of somebody without any foundation in the actual hash. Just because it fits better to the trained data. Seeing as AI was trained on 99999999999999 images o
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by fasa99 2y ago
Are we talking about the time the car hit the mayor on his bike in 2017, or the time the car hit a different mayor in 2019, or the more recent one in 2023? Either way, when you ram your car into a bicycle it is known as "el san jose ho
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by fasa99 2y ago
>If an action that hurts the stock short-term but will help int he long-term needs to be performed why would you as an investor enact it or even stay for the ride? Yes and this underpins what most consider the disgusting trait of being e
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by fasa99 2y ago
For tech and immigration Japan has it all figured out. No illegal immigration because illegal No cheesing population growth because over time - a long time - it will repair itself No high tech because it's not a good thing per se - fax
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by fasa99 2y ago
>ArchiveBox is also gearing up to support real cryptographic signing of archives That's a really interesting point. The gut reaction is "why are we wasting time on adding a nice-to-have such as a very fancy cousin of the MD5 c
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by fasa99 2y ago
In the big picture we start with the server side - >cloud computer running a >linux machine running a >virtual machine running a >linux machine running a >virtual docker environment running a >instance of python running a
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by fasa99 2y ago
>driving down micromanagement and all that, all it is is a fear response. I completely agree, I've seen micromanagers like this. It's fear, and driving the fear is lack of trust. For a good and honest employee, if the founder
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by fasa99 2y ago
That's fine, if people go over the bandwidth cap of 10G with their 10G/sec connection, they will be reduced to 2G speed for network congestion protection purposes. Also for and extra $20 you can buy another 10G of bandwidth!
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by fasa99 2y ago
Curse those clever Pro-Palestine hacktivists, what with going onto IA and erasing all material that's critical of Israel
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by fasa99 2y ago
> I hope this was in violation of the regulation: surely you can't invent a new mailing list that didn't used to exist, add me to it, and require me to unsubscribe from it individually. Exactly, this is the core of the problem.
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by fasa99 2y ago
>What's the case for higher population? A lot of society is a ponzi scheme e.g. social security, insurance. Young supporting the old. In some senses, young inexperienced people "paying their dues" are handling most of the
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by fasa99 2y ago
>Innovation requires reliable funding, The way I see this argument is "Innovation requires an institution devoted to innovation, which requires reliable funding such as monopolistic or taxpayer" As you say, on the 1-5 year hori
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by fasa99 2y ago
>the expression looks almost grotesquely bad: "at some point the learning stops and the pain begins" - S. Rao Kosaraju, Professor Emeritus
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by fasa99 2y ago
That works for the half of it, which blocks people from massing many accounts. Other part is flow control, limit posts to X per unit time e.g. every 5 minutes. That second part is key because we need to be operating under the assumption t
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by fasa99 2y ago
>Actually - more realistic would be, What if you had the disease in question and knew the cure might (then again might not) have some unknown side effect, up to or even exceeding a 10% chance of death. Would you take it? Yea. That exists
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by fasa99 2y ago
I'll do a system d but a problem is (1) system environment, and (2) machine specs. To normalize machine specs I will run it in a VM on the cloud. To normalize system environment I run in docker. I also like to run on Java for code safe
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by fasa99 2y ago
I didn't understand any of that. But what I got out of it was, this hardcore mf doesn't code in assembly, he codes in binary.
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by fasa99 2y ago
To build out this metaphor a little more, John Deere makes the tractor (phone OS) which pulls machinery (apps - plow, fertilizer spreader, harvester, etc). This would be John Deere controlling which equipment the tractor may or may not be
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by fasa99 2y ago
Yea exactly, it's like "I just met you, and this is crazy, here let me shit-test you maybe". Like running a "reverse a linked list" test on first meeting. There is by definition judgement to it, which, judging str
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by fasa99 2y ago
Q: Why are there so many websites that are essentially static HTML that make my phone stutter? A: because your phone is a potato The first free tech support from HN is free, subsequent questions will be $29.99 per.
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by fasa99 2y ago
Hi friend, I'm dealing with the same thing and agree with everything you said. ADDITIONALLY we found that it loves office printers, great attack vector to hit the whole office. Also did you figure out why it reprograms display firmwar

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